Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-05-04
A DREAM FULFILLED.
Che Death OF an Engiishman Revealed &
an Extraordinary Vision.
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rhe Death OF an Engilshman Revealed fa
an Extraordinary Vision.
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Twas out walking will, my friend, Henry
Wilson, when, turning sIddenly to me, ha
said:
.'Eastes, do you helieve in. dreamsi'
ut depends upon what you moan by bo-
lieving in Dreams answered. 'I be-
lieve that people have dreams, but don't
believe, as some say, that ono can tell the
future by dreams. Some say that dreams
go by centraries, but don't believe, that
either. I don't think dreams have any
thing to dowith what is going to happen"
81 hope you arc right"he, said, earnest.
ly, ''for had terrible dream, or rather
nightmare, last night / dreamed that I
should die to-day"
"Wel," said, 81 hope you don't believe
that"
And we walked on in silence for some
time, but Wilson began again:
81 should not have paid any attention. To-
my dream last night, only l dreamed ID
three times, and each dream was moro,
vivid than. the other"
81 believe in cause and effect" replied.
'Perh ,ps y,u took an indigestib,e supper.
last night"
"Wilson did not see m to appreciate hav-.
ing supper mentioned as the cause Of his
bad night, so he did n OF deign to notice my
last remark
Well, we walked on. Other topics were
discussed, and we both seemed to have
forgotten all about Wilson's dreams OF tha
night before. After we had walked on for
some distance we came to a town in which
lived some people / wanted to call upon
They were old friends of the family, and
quite unknown to Harry Wilson, so said
to him:
"Wilson, have to call on some old
friends in this town. Would you like to
come with me, or would you rather wait
for met"
'oh, how long will you be engagedi" he
asked
at is some little distance to my friends
house." l replied. 81 don't think L
could be back in less than an hour spd,a
half"
'I'H tell you what I'll do TIL take boat
and so on the river" he said, land I'll be
here again in an hour and half, and then
we can walk back together"
The river flowed through the town, and
wilson proposed rowing away from the
town.
Every well," returned, and set of to
my friends.
had seen my friends and was return.
ing to the place at which we had agreed to
meet, when saw that the meeting place
was surrounded by small crowd OF peo.
pie. As l approached I wondered what
could be the matter; surely it co uld not be
any thing connected with Wilson's dream
put that thought out OF my mind in an in.
slant as being absurd. thought it was
rather a bother that this crowd should
have assembled around the particular spot
at which We had agreed to meet.
asked what the matter was. The old
man who let out the boats told me what il
meant He said: There's q gentleman
drowned"
"Where was no drownedl" / asked.
HE was drowned there" he said, point.
ing to rather dangerous part Of the
river. He was found only ten minutes
ago."
'Where is he nowl" inquired.
The man pointed to an DID, disuscd bath.
house.
"He's lying there" he said
As knew that Wilson had gone ont
boating, and as somebody had been found
dead in that part of the river in which he
had been boating, l could not repress q
'shudder at the thought of who the poor
gentleman lying dead in the boat-house
could be. Invent into the boat-house and
saw the body. 1t was the body Of my
friend, Henry Wilson.
lhave simply stated the facts. do not
say that Wilson's dream was the fore
shadowing of the death that was to m eet
him during the day, but do say that it
his dreams did not foretell his death, it is
the most extraordinary coincidence that
has ever come within my experience.